Chemistry, Fall 2011: Don Bosco Technical Institute: www.boscotech.edu/MStephenson
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Class Activities: Monday and Tuesday, 08/29-30/2011, Week #1: This class will meet for 90 Minutes: Review Chapter 1 of Text
Word of the day for the Lesson: Chemistry and its properties
(a) Introductions and seat assignments
(b) Handout Syllabi, Safety Rules (page 26), Class Requirements and Expectations
(c) Review: “The Scientific Method;” see page 22 of text
(d) Warm-up (5m): Overview of course and lesson: What is Chemistry?
(e) Lecture 1: The nature of Chemical Processes: Reactions and Change (15m)
(f) Lecture 2: Chemical Explosions (15m): A movie and lab write-up Format
(g) Lab1 preparation: Chemical Glassware and Lab Safety (20 m)
(h) Lab Preview: On the nature of Matter and its properties: Handout (10 m)
(i) Homework 0: Read Chapter 1: Note key concepts: Completion date: 09/01/11
(j) Exit Quiz (5m): (a) what is analytical chemistry? (b) What is the Scientific Method? What Problem Solving in Chemistry?
(k) Lab Report on Chemistry is due on 09/06/2011.
(l) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
(m) Mock Quiz1: Chem., Scientific Meth., Matter, and Lab..: Fri., 09/02-06/2011
(n) Real Quiz1: Chem., Scientific Meth., Matter, and Lab. Tech.: Tues., 09/07/2011
Class Activities: Wednesday and Thursday, 08/31/2011 and 09/01/2011, Week #1: This class will meet for 90 Minutes.
Word of the day for the Lesson: Matter and Chemical Change
Chemistry Class: Review Chapter 2 of Text
(a) Review (5m): Overview of Chemical Reactions: What is chemistry? What is a chemical property? What is a physical property?
(b) Warm-up: what is mass? (b) What is a density? (c) What is temperature? (d) What is matter?
(c) Lecture 1: Matter: Atoms, electrons, protons, neutrons, and molecules (30m)
(d) Lecture 2: Matter and its properties: (30m): www.sciencegeek.net
(e) Lab2 preparation: On the nature of Matter and its properties (40m): Handout
(f) Lab Preview of Scientific Method: Scientific Method and the Lab (10 m)
(g) Homework 1: Complete reading Chapter 2: Due date: 09/02/11
(h) Exit Quiz (5m): (a) what is a mixture? (b) What does homogeneous mean? (c) What does heterogeneous mean? (c) What is distillation?
(i) Mock Quiz1: Chem., Scientific Meth., Matter, and Lab..: Fri., 09/02-06/2011
(j) Real Quiz1: Chem., Scientific Meth., Matter, and Lab. Tech.: Tues., 09/07/2011
(k) Lab Report on Matter is due on 09/06/2011.
(l) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
Class Activities: Friday and Tuesday, 09/02&06/2011; Week #1&2: Chapter 2.
Word of the day for the Lesson: Chemical Reactions and Measurement
Chemistry Class: this class lasts for the whole period: 90 minutes.
(a) Review of Chemistry: The nature of matter: Quantitative vs. Qualitative (5m)
(b) Warm-up: What is measurement? Measuring: Quantitative and Qualitative (5m)
(c) Lecture 1: Quantitative Measurements: The Bull’s-eye (25m)
(d) Lecture 2: What is a foot? What are numbers? What is accuracy? What is precision? What is a standard? What is a significant figure? What is a mole? What are Conversion Factors? Give examples. (30m)
(e) Lab3 preparation (10m): Scientific Method and the Lab
(f) Lab Preview: Measuring density, temperature, mass
(g) Homework 2: Read Chapter 3 of Text and note key concepts: Due 09/06/2011
(h) Exit Quiz (5m): (a) what is measurement? What is accuracy? What is precision? What is Scientific Notation? What is Dimensional Analysis? What is the Picket Fence?
(i) Mock Quiz1: Chem., Scientific Meth., Matter, and Lab..: Fri., 09/02-06/2011
(j) Lab Report on Matter and Scientific Method is due on 09/06/2011.
(k) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
Class Activities: Monday, 09/05/2011, Week #2: A Holiday
Class Activities: Wednesday and Thursday, 09/07-08/2011; Week #2.
Word of the day for the Lesson: Significant Figures (Calculations)
Chemistry Class: This class will meet for 90 minutes. Read Chapter 3 of Text
(a) Review: What is accuracy? What is precision? What is Measurement?(5m)
(b) Warm-up: Silent Reading of Handout on Significant Figure Rules (15m)
(c) Lecture 1: problem solving, and SI Units of Measurements: (30m)
(d) Lecture 2: Temperature, Mass, Distance, Density in Measurements (20m)
(e) Lab4 preparation: Density, Temperature, mass (15m)
(f) Lab Preview: Numbers in Measurement: Golden Number
(g) Homework3: Do time and sig. fig. problems on handout: Due 09/12/2011
(h) Exit Quiz (5m): Review Questions: what are significant figures? What does the word specification mean? What is determinate error? What is indeterminate error?
(i) Real Quiz2: Chem., Scientific Meth., Matter, and Lab. Tech.: Tues., 09/07&08/2011
(j) Lab Report on Matter is due on 09/06/2011.
(k) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions
Class Activities: Friday & Monday, 09/09&12/2011; Week 2&3: Read Chapter 3.
Word of the day for the Lesson: Dimensional Analysis
Chemistry Class: this class lasts for the whole period, 90 minutes:
(a) Review: Scientific Method and Experimentation: Collecting Data
(b) Warm-up: What is a conversion factor? What is a prefix in measurement? What is uncertainty in measurements? (5m)
(c) Lecture 1: Time, mass, length Problems
(d) Lecture 2: Doing conversions: Conversion Factors
(e) Lab work: Golden Section and Numbers (40m)
(f) Lab Review: write-up, and completion; Next Endo. versus Exo. Reactions (10m)
(g) Homework4: Assignment: complete ten problems on time/mass: Due 09/19/2011
(h) Exit Quiz (5m): Review Questions: What does the word average mean? What is rounding? What is the SI System of Units?
(i) Mock Quiz2: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Fri., 09/16/2011
(j) Real Quiz2: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Monday, 09/19/2011
(k) Lab Report on Scientific Method and Measurement is due on 09/12/2011.
(l) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
Class Activities: Tuesday and Wednesday, 09/13-14/2011, Week #3:
Class Activities: this class lasts for the whole period, 90 minutes: Read Chapter3
Word of the day for the Lesson: International System of Units, SI System
Chemistry Class: This class will meet for the full 90 minutes: Read Chapter 3.
(a) Review: What is heat? What is energy? What is coldest temperature known?
(b) Warm-up (5m): What is the Kelvin Scale? What is Celsius Scale? What is Temperature? Give examples
(c) Lecture 1: Discussion, problem solving, and SI Units of Measurements: (30m)
(d) Lecture 2: Temperature and Mass in Measurements (20m)
(e) Lab: Exothermic versus Endothermic Reactions (15m)
(f) Lab review: Volume, Length, and Time
(g) Homework:5: Do mass, temperature, and sig. fig. problems: Due 09/19/11.
(h) Exit Quiz (5m): Review Questions: what are errors and their causes? What does the prefix Femto mean? What is energy? What is scientific notation?
(i) Mock Quiz2: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Fri., 09/16/2011
(j) Real Quiz2: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Monday, 09/19/2011
(k) Lab Report on Scientific Method and Measurement is due on 09/12/2011.
(l) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
Class Activities: Thursday and Friday, 09/15-16/2010; Week #3.
Word of the day for the Lesson: Density
Chemistry Class: this class lasts for the whole period, 90 minutes: Read Chapter 3.
(a) Review: Problem set review
(b) Warm-up: What is an exact number? What is heat? What is a Kilo? Warm-up (5m)
(c) Lecture 1: What is density?
(d) Lecture 2: Other properties of matter
(e) Lab work: Volume, Length, and Time (40m)
(f) Lab: Review: Density and mass (10m)
(g) Homework6 Assign.: Complete problems on Dimensional Analysis: Due 09/22/11
(h) Exit Quiz (5m): Review Questions: What does the word measurement mean? Why are measurements important? What is quantitative analysis?
(i) Mock Quiz2: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Fri., 09/16/2011
(j) Real Quiz2: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Monday, 09/19/2011
(k) Lab Report on Golden Section and Reactions is due on 09/19/2011.
(l) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
Class Activities: Monday and Tuesday, 09/19-20/2011; Week #4
Word of the day for the Lesson: Temperature and Heat
Chemistry Classes: This class will meet for the full 90 minutes: Read Chapter 3.
(a) Review: What is dimensional analysis? What is a roadmap? What is a Picket Fence?
(b) Warm-up (5m): What is density? What is temperature? What is a conversion factor? Give examples
(c) Lecture 1: Discussion of Qualitative Analysis: (15m)
(d) Lecture 2: Temperature, and Mass in Measurements Calculations (20m)
(e) Lab work: Doing Mathematical Calculations
(f) Lab review: Complete all labs on Matter and Measurements
(g) Homework7: Do problems on dimensional analysis: Due on 09/26/11.
(h) Exit Quiz (5m): Review Questions: what is measurement?
(i) Real Quiz2: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Monday, 09/19/2011
(j) Lab Report on Golden Section and Reactions is due on 09/19/2011.
(k) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
Class Activities: Wednesday and Thursday, 09/21-22/2011; Week #4:
Word of the day for the Lesson: the atom and the periodic table
Chemistry Class: this class will last for the whole period, 90 minutes: Read Chapter 4 and 5.
(a) Review: What is matter made of? Who was Dalton? Rutherford?
(b) Warm-up (5m): What is a proton? What is an electron? What is a neutron?
(c) Lecture 1: Theories about the atom: The elements
(d) Lecture 2: Parts of the atom: www.sciencegeek.net
(e) Lab work: Golden Section Completion (40m)
(f) Lab: Review, write-up, and completion (10m)
(g) Homework8 Assign.: Complete Problem, Dimensional Analysis: Due on09/26/11.
(h) Exit Quiz (5m): Review Questions: What is a nuclide? An Isotope? Atomic Mass?
(i) Mock Quiz3: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Fri., 09/23/2011
(j) Real Quiz3: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Monday, 09/26/2011
(k) Lab Report on Measurement and Math. Calculations are due on 09/23/2011.
(l) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
Class Activities: Friday and Tuesday, 09/23&27/2011, Week #5:
Word of the day for the Lesson: The atom, read chapter 4 and 5.
Chemistry Class: this class will last for the whole period, 90 minutes:
(a) Review: What is the Atomic Theory? What is an orbital?
(b) Warm-up (5m): What is a particle? What is a nucleus? What is attraction?
(c) Lecture 1: Atomic Theory: Neutral Atoms and Ions
(d) Lecture 2: The elements and the periodic table: Alkali metals and nonmetals
(e) Lab work: models of the atom (20m)
(f) Lab Review: write-up, and completion (10m)
(g) Computer work: Find models of the atom and draw out
(h) Homework9 Assign: Problems on Neutral atoms and Ions: Due on 10/03/11
(i) Exit Quiz (5m): Review Questions: What is Chemistry? What is the nature of matter? What is an Ion? Cation? Anion?
(j) Mock Quiz3 Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Fri., 09/23/2011
(k) Real Quiz3: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Monday, 09/26/2011
(l) Lab Report on Atoms is due on 09/26/2011.
(m) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
Class Activities: Wednesday thru Monday, 09/28-10/03/2011, Week #5: Week of Review for First Quarter Final
Chemistry, October, Fall 2011: Don Bosco Technical Institute: www.boscotech.edu/MStephenson
Class Activities: Tuesday and Wednesday, 10/04-05/2011; Week #6:
Word of the day for the Lesson: The Periodic Table
Chemistry Class: this class last for the whole period, 90 minutes: Chapters: #3 and #6.
(a) Review: What is the nucleus? What is an element? What is a compound?
(b) Warm-up (5m): What is an atom? What is a molecule? Give examples.
(c) Lecture 1: Periodic Properties: Transition Elements.
(d) Lecture 2: Qualitative Aspects on Atoms and the Periodic Table (20m)
(e) Lab on: Atoms and elements (40m)
(f) Lab review and write-up: Prep for next lab (5m)
(g) Homework10: Problem set on Atomic Calculations: Due on 10/10/11
(h) Exit Quiz (5m): (a) What is electronegativity? What is ionization energy?
(i) Mock Quiz4: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Fri., 10/07/2011
(j) Real Quiz4: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Monday, 10/10/2011
(k) Lab Report on Atoms and elements is due on 10/10/2011.
(l) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
Class Activities: Thursday and Friday, 10/06-07/2011; Week #6:
Word of the day for the Lesson: Review: Periodic Relationships
Chemistry Class: this class lasts for the whole period, 90 minutes: Chapters: #3 and #6
(a) Review: What is a metal? nonmetal? metalloid? Nobel gas?
(b) Warm-up (5m): What is “The Atomic Theory”? Who was Rutherford? What was his contribution to Chemistry? Give examples.
(c) Lecture 1: Periodic Trends: Nonmetals and Nobel Gases
(d) Lecture 2: Atoms and the Periodic Table: (20m)
(e) Lab: on the Periodic Table and the properties of elements: (20m)
(f) Lab review and write-up: (5m)
(g) Homework11: Draw structures of the atom: Due on 10/15/11
(h) Exit Quiz (5m): (a) What is the periodic table?
(i) Mock Quiz4: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Fri., 10/07/2011
(j) Real Quiz4: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Monday, 10/10/2011
(k) Lab Report on Periodic Properties is due on 10/10/2011.
(l) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
Class Activities: Monday and Tuesday, 10/10-11/2011; Week #7:
Word of the day for the Lesson: the atom and the periodic table
Chemistry Classes: this class will last for the whole period, 90 minutes: Read Chapter 3 of Text
(a) Review: What is the periodic table?
(b) Warm-up (5m): What is a metal? What is a nonmetal? What is a Nobel Gas?
(c) Lecture 1: Valence Electrons: The Lanthanide Series (15m)
(d) Lecture 2: Groups and Periods
(e) Lab work: Atomic Absorption Experiment (40m)
(f) Lab Review, write-up, and completion (10m)
(g) Exit Quiz (5m): Review Questions: What are orbitals?
(h) Homework12: Assign.: Problems on Electronic Configs.: Due on 10/17/11
(i) Mock Quiz5: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Fri., 10/14/2011
(j) Real Quiz5: Chemistry, Chemical Calculations, and Lab.: Monday, 10/17/2011
(k) Lab Report on Periodic Properties is due on 10/17/2011.
(l) Lab coats and Safety Glasses are required for all Labs, No exceptions.
Class Activities: Wednesday and Thursday, 10/12-13/2011; Week #7:
Word of the day for the Lesson: Scientific Method and the Atom
Chemistry Classes: this class will last for the whole period, 90 minutes: Chapter 6